The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-27
GENERAL NEWS.

The morning local freight from Boston
over the Boston and Lowell road jumped the
track at the crossing of the Nashua and
Rochester railroad in Nashua yesterday
morning. Four cars were badly wrecked
and the track blockaded for time. Passen-
ger trains bound TO Boston and the north
were delayed. Nobody was hurt. The cars
were piled into promiscuous heap and con-
siderable damage was done
Negotiations for a settlement of the shoe
makers strike at Beverly have failed, and
the conference committee adjourned sine die
yesterday morning. There is no present
prospect of settlement.
The cottage of VIM. b. Smith, at Marble
head, was entered by burglars Monday night
and jewelry, ETC.. to the value of $500 stolen.
DR.. C. B. Stamford, candidate to succeed
Senator Beck in the United States Senate.
morning. His death was unexpected. He
was married only about three weeks ago.
Virginia Hudson, aged seven years. a
negro child, was locked up at Granville, s.
O.. Monday, for murder. She killed child
one year old. in Bullet Township. on Satur-
day, and threw the body into WELL
A. Jacksonville, Fla, paper prints story
Maiden, Mass, who died unexpectedly in
Jacksonville, was the victim Of foul play.
A delegation which is to present President
Cleveland an invitation TO visit Kansas City
this fall, left for Washington at o'clock
Monday afternoon, headed by the Hon. 9; II.
Allen. president of the board Of trade. The
delegation Is not political.
The Socialistic element Of the labor party
in New York gained another victory over
the less radical portion Monday night by the
election, in the 14th district, of George Black,
radical socialist, as delegate to the Syra-
cuse convention.
Unknown parties Monday night entered
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the Monville Company, at Monville, X. l.,
and by running knife along the tops Of the
rolls ruined some five thousand yards of
fancy goods on the looms. The mill was re-
Gently the scene OF weavers' strike.
The property of the Granite State manu-
featuring company, in Portsmouth, of which
| X. III. Jayne, the defaulting clerk OF the
| navy yard, was manager, was attached yes
| terday on q writ in favor Of paymaster Put
nam.
The brakemen on the New Mexico and
| and Arizona railroad have struck because
of orders requiring them to made up their
| own trains.
Monday morning two Of the sherif's
| posses in pursuit Of two Laramie city jail
breakers shot two surface graders on the
| Cheyenne and Northern Pacific road. Both
| will probably die. When the deputies rode
| in sight of the men they thought they were
the escaped prisoners.
| n uN6 years Olu uOJ udlucu EIdutuDuTB
| fell into the Walloomsac river at Benning-
| ton, VT, yesterday and was drowned.
| At Worcester, Mass, yesterday, the alder
| men tabled the petition of the Temperance
League asking for the revocation of the
licenses Of 3s liquor dealers.
The recommendation is made to the
1 Dominion government to establish custom
| houses in the Yukon District of the North
| west Territory to prevent the free trading
now being carried on between there and
i Alaska.
Timothy McGrath, aged 25, of Waterbury,
| Conn.,, committed suicide at the hospital al
| New Haven, yesterday, swallowing a dose
| of poison while suffering from dependency,
Henry Leigh, an inspector in the New
Haven custom house, has been discharged
for having conducted business besides his
official duties.
Caroline Chaskey, German woman, was
killed by train on the Naugatuck railroad
near Seymour, Conn.,, yesterday morning.
1t is said that gigantic scheme is being
planned at Pittsburg, Pa, to control the
Knights of Labor throughout the country
The movement has for its objects the contro
of the order under the present administra-
tion, and is in the interest Of District Assem-.
bly, No. 40 of New York, Master Workman
Powderly and General Secretary Litehman